Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when at 35 and still an obscure Nebraska lawyer, he stepped before the American Bar Association and blasted U.S. courts for archaic adherence to fixed rules.* There after famed as "The Schoolmaster of the A.B.A.," he followed the same principle in helping to shift the focus of U.S. law to social needs. Later, in his complaints about the resulting tendency of U.S. courts to become quasilegislatures, he was faithful as ever to his point. Last week, when Pound died at 93, a paragon of principle passed from...
...small (870 students) Cornell College,*proclaims "one of education's least spectacular messages." Says Christ-Janer: "We are mightily impressed by dramatic advances in such areas as missilery and medicine, but as a liberal arts college our business is to bring these new facts of life into meaningful focus. Nothing more...
...ORGANIZER. Director Mario (Big Deal on Madonna Street) Monicelli's vivid, moving, timelessly beautiful portrait of 19th century Italy comes into sharp focus on Marcello Mastroianni, demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a socialist Savonarola who leads Turin textile workers in a strike that fails...
Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...
...Shadows. Jupiter's temperature now seems as mysterious as the sun's. Astronomers Bruce C. Murray and Robert L. Wildey of Caltech uncovered that surprise by placing a new infrared photometer at the focus of Palomar's 200-in. telescope and taking the temperature of Jupiter's cold atmosphere. Although the photometer designed by Engineer James A. Westphal is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as earlier instruments, it registered no change as it scanned the Great Red Spot and the light and dark bands that decorate Jupiter's disk...